CSCI 4730 / 6730 Operating Systems

Syllabus & Policies

Introduction to the course

Topic/presentation discussion

"Advice"

Project 1: YOSH (Due Aug 31)
C/UNIX Warm up

HW 1: An Introduction

Please write an intro message to the class list at URL:

CS-OS@listserv.uga.edu

 

Thursday Aug 19 -- Drop ends for undergraduate level courses only (1000 – 5999) at midnight.

Friday Aug 20 - Add ends at midnight for undergraduate courses.

Please read Chapter 1 for next week.

Chapter 1-2 if you have the dinosaur book.

Remainder movie (15 min)

C Tutorial

System Programming

Please write an intro message to the class list at URL:

CS-OS@listserv.uga.edu

Monday Aug 23 -- Drop ends for graduate level courses only (6000 – 9999) at midnight.

Tuesday Aug 24 - Add ends at midnight for graduate courses.

HW 2: Booting

Remainder movie (15 min)

System Programming (Pipes)

Pipe & Brief Project 1 discussion

Example Summaries (used by permission) from different class:

example1.doc
example2.doc

In example2 - although a nice write-up overall, the critique of the speaker (last paragraph) is 2/5 - as it did not mention or convey the coverage of particular concepts.

OS Design & Structures

Return Quiz

Class Photo

Please have a 'name tag' ready use for the individual pictures (e.g., it could be as simple as your name written on a piece of note book paper).

Taking Pictures with Digital Camera

OS Structures

Pipe Tutorial

( SRC for tutorial)

Project 2 : Minix Kernel Gentle Hack and Installation

HW3: Design and Processes

First Mini-Conference on System Design and History

(1) Presenter 1/2/3

Processes

- Patrick shell demo (5min)
- Patrick shell demo (5min)
- ? shell demo (5min)

(9/10/2010 update on process slides)

(2) Presenter 4/5/6

Processes & Sockets

Example Code

Project 3 : Chatty Server & Client

(will change some, but starting early can still be beneficial - some links don't work yet in the description)

Project 1 Grades (here) - does not include penalty for late turn-ins

HW 4: Mailbox Snd/Rcv & Shared Memory Communication on Odin

(3) Presenter 6/7/8:

For specific paper see reading assignment (link here).

Slides for RPC now available

code snippets here.

/web/maria/public_html/classes/4730-Fall-2010/rpc

HW 5: RPC On Odin (yes, works!)

& atlas (maybe)

(4) Presenter 9/10/11

Summary-HW Grades (here)

Project 4 : QUFiX: Queing Strategy Schedulers (preview available - but the particular protocols will vary - you must use at least MINIX version 3.1.7 or up)

Grades:
contested      project 1
Minix Install   project 2
Chatt             project 3
P & HW          latest-p-h

(6) Presenter 15/16/17

Scheduling

Team Assignments are listed here:

HW 6: Practice Problems Exam (hard copy handed out - you must attend class to receive a hard copy)

Due Oct 12th

(7) Presenter 18/19/20

October 07 is Official Middle of Term of for Fall 2010

(HW 6 due)

(8) Presenter 21/22/23

For specific paper see presentation link above.

Project 5 Semaphore (same as last year, but you must use Minix 3.1.7+)

Due date: Nov 09, 2010

(1) Presenter 1/2/3/4

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**** October 21 (Thursday) Withdrawal Deadline (Fall 2010)

(2) Presenter 5/6/7/8

HW 7: Lessons learned from scheduling and synchronization.

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Regarding summaries - a guidelines on what questions to anwer is here

* You can replace one HW

* You may replace 2 summaries

(expectations: the replacement needs to show that you read and understood the paper)

Project 6: Memory

(note overlap with Project 5, plan time wisely)

(3) Presenter 9/10/11/12

HW 8: Memory and Deadlock

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Project 6: Memory

(4) Presenter 13/14/15/16

For specific paper see presentation link above.

Due Date Project 5 

HW 8: Practice Problems Exam 2 (hard copy handed out - you must attend class to receive a hard copy)

Due Date Nov 30th (but you really should have this completed before the exam)

H9: Lessons Learned and additional practice problems

Synchronization, Deadlock, Memory, Virtual Memory

Papers covered between Oct 7th-Nov 10th (inclusive)

HW 10: File and P-threads

(5) Presenter 17/18/19/20

File Implementation

This Tuesday is viewed as a Friday, if you need to discuss any 'contests' you must discuss it with the intructor here at the latest

Classes End

Final Day 3

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Commencement

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